About this series: This series brings together all the small maps that were printed in A. Wainwrights famous Fell guides. Each of the six maps in the series covers a specified area & retains all the detail of the original maps, including the path information. These maps are ideal for walkers wishing to reflect on there travels from the arm chair or for attractive wall display. However as they were originally drawn in the 50s & 60s & have not been amended, so they should be used with extreme caution & only alongside up-to-date maps when walking. Wainwright was one of the UK's most famous & well-respected walkers, his hand written guides, although written in the 1950s & 60s, are still as popular today as they were when they first came out. ...

This series brings together all the small maps that were printed in A. Wainwrights famous Fell guides; each of the six maps in the series covers a specified area & retains all the detail of the original maps, including the path information. These maps are ideal for walkers wishing to reflect on there travels from the arm chair or for attractive wall display; however as they were originally drawn in the 50s & 60s & have not been amended, so they should be used with extreme caution & only alongside up-to-date maps when walking. Wainwright was one of the UK`s most famous & well-respected walkers, his hand written guides, although written in the 1950s & 60s, are still as popular today as they were when they first came out. ...

The Wainwright Memorial Walk is the 102-mile route through the Lake District that A. Wainwright
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On 24 April 2015, it will have been exactly fifty years since a ceremony was held at Malham to mark the official opening of the Pennine Way Long Distance Footpath (now designated a National Trail), a trek of some 270 miles from Edale in Derbyshire`s Peak District to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders. There are now 15 National Trails of varying length but despite competition from younger upstarts, the pioneering Pennine Way retains its cachet of being the most challenging (and consequently most rewarding) expedition across vast tracts of Britain`s untamed countryside. The legendary fell-walker, writer & illustrator Alfred Wainwright published his own inimitable step-by-step pocket guide to the Pennine Way in 1966 & in 1985 used that material as the basis for a collaboration with photographer Derry Brabbs: Wainwright on the Pennine Way, an illustrated overview of the trail, which topped the Sunday Times best-seller list for several weeks. For this edition, published in a handsome new large format, Wainwright`s text has been revised & annotated to account for the changes in the route that have occurred in recent years, as well as the improvements to the terrain underfoot, in areas where flagstone paths now cover the boggy peat moors. In addition, Derry Brabbs has reshot the entire book specially with stunning year-round photography, to bring this classic fully up to date. Wainwright on the Pennine Way brings together a writer & a photographer who have each been acclaimed for their artistry in recording the high places of Britain. This is a `must have` memento or gift for anyone who has done the route or an aspirational reference work for armchair walkers content to let others do the legwork. ...

Bound in real cloth with gold foil blocking, this classic blank book is perfect for sketching or journaling.

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This book is a photographic journey through the Lake District. It illustrates what a group of young men would have seen on their Whitsuntide holiday in 1931 had the weather been in their favour. In 1991, shortly after the death of Alfred Wainwright, W. E. Maudsley, the sole surviving member of that group, made available the details of their holiday; unknown to anyone, he had kept them for sixty years. On six foolscap sheets, it outlined a route over the high fells of Lakel&. The Whitsuntide Tour was the brainchild of Alfred Wainwright, who, after his first visit to the Lakes the year before, had to see more. Its aim was to see every valley, mountain, & lake, even though they may not all be visited. With his three companions, Jim Sharples, Harry Driver, & Eric Maudsley, they set out on 23 May 1931. The walk, a test of man's endurance against nature, ended six days later. Unfortunately, A. W. did not keep notes & does not mention the walk in either of his biographies, so we can only assume how it must have been for the young adventurers. Although it failed to achieve its objective, the Whitsuntide Tour was to sow the seeds that culminated in the guide books we know so well. It was the beginning of a Love Story. ...

The first fully revised & updated edition of A. Wainwright`s pocket-sized guide to the classic Coast to Coast Walk. From St Bees Head on the Irish Sea by way of the Lake District, the Pennines, Swaledale & the North York Moors & ending at Robin Hood`s Bay on the North Sea, this 190-mile walk has over the years become one of the best-loved long-distance routes in the world. First devised in the early 1970s, the walk has prompted countless enthusiasts to lace up their walking boots & follow Wainwright`s example, & inspired TV series by Tony Robinson for Channel 5 & Julia Bradbury for BBC Four. This brand new edition of the Pictorial Guide contains Wainwright`s h&-drawn route maps & his inimitable commentary, with the route, maps & text completely revised & brought fully up-to-date by Chris Jesty. ...

Wainwright`s Guides to the Lakeland Fells & Other Locations is a series collecting together the reproduced volumes of the great fell walker Wainwright’s famous hand drawn & written exhaustive guide to the Lake District in seven volumes plus an additional volume for minor fells (hardback, pocket size) & some related north of England titles.. Each guide contains a written description, hand drawn maps, & topographical diagrams of each route of ascent, sketches & often panoramas of the summit view, for all the hills in the area, along with available ridge routes to adjacent hills. Difficult areas are detailed in sketches & extra diagrams. There are a number of Wainwright titles, some in the Wainwright style & some collaborations with photographs, most of the current editions have been unobtrusively updated Chris Jesty for the twenty first century, with information such as car parks & campsites, & with paths actually in use on the ground shown in red, text changes are achieved by use of a ” Wainwright” font. ...

Wainwright`s Way is a journey on foot through Wainwright`s life from Lancashire to the Lakes. This walking guide charts a 126-mile long-distance route linking the place where Wainwright was born
- a Victorian terraced house in Audley Range, Blackburn
- with his final resting place on Haystacks, his heavenly corner of Lakel&. Along the way, the walk, split into ten day stages, literally follows in the footsteps of Wainwright at work, linking the sights he sketched & wrote about in a succession of Lancashire guides: A Ribble Sketchbook, A Bowland Sketchbook & A Lune Sketchbook. Continuing northwards, the walk arrives in the county Wainwright knew best, as celebrated in his books, Westmorland Heritage & Three Westmorland Rivers. Spending time in Kendal, where Wainwright lived for 50 years, the route stops to enjoy a unique circular town walk linking all the places associated with AW
- from the Museum & Library, to the Town Hall where he worked, to his two residences at Castle Grove & Kendal Green. From here, the walker enters Wainwright`s `earthly paradise` & takes a meandering course across Lakeland from Kendal to Buttermere, through the territory made so familiar by AW`s intimate Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. The route visits some of the lesser known valleys, passes & peaks recorded in The Far Eastern, Eastern, Central & Western Fells guides, & stops in Borrowdale, one of Wainwright`s favourite valleys, taking in a section of his Coast to Coast Walk along the way. The climax of the walk follows the final journey of Wainwright himself, as his ashes were carried onto Haystacks from Honister Pass to be scattered by the side of Innominate Tarn. From here, the walker drops down to the shores of Buttermere & visits the final memorial to Wainwright
- the window on to the fells in the tiny roadside church of St. James. It is a fitting end to both a memorable walk completed
- & a memorable life fulfilled. Much more than a route guide, this book uncovers the history, landscape & characters of many of the places sketched by Wainwright. It is a walk through some of the most spectacular scenery in the North of England
- including a surprising Lancashire, a county of dramatic river valleys, high moors & lonely woodland cloughs. This trek unites the two contrasting lives of the master fell walker
- his industrial Lancashire life & his Lakeland life. It takes in paths on the edge of mill town Blackburn that Wainwright is known to have walked along himself during his youthful sojourns into the Lancashire countryside.






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Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase & for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly & wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother & sisters, & their politics (while not being at all political herself), finally setting the record straight. Throughout the book she writes brilliantly about the country & her deep attachment to it & those who live & work in it. As Duchess of Devonshire, Debo played an active role in restoring & overseeing the day-to-day running of the family houses & gardens, & in developing commercial enterprises at Chatsworth. She tells poignantly of the deaths of three of her children, as well as her husband`s battle with alcohol addiction. Wait For Me is enthralling & a total joy, full of the author`s sympathetic wit (which she is not afraid to use on herself). ...